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Questions tagged [drop-cap]

{drop-cap} An initial is a letter at the beginning of a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text. A drop cap is a special kind of initial, but this tag is used for all questions about initials.

{drop-cap} is a special kind of initial letter at the beginning of a paragraph, but this tag is used for all questions about initials

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How to use fancy dropcaps with PDFlatex?

A little while ago I wanted to write a letter to someone using one of the dropcap fonts at The LaTeX Font Catalogue and wasn't able to figure out how to do it in the time I had. Is there an easy way to insert one of these as a dropcap at the start…
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How to translate yinitial macro from TeX to LaTeX?

There is this macro in TeX. In Yannis Haralambous' TUG Conference presentation in 1990, https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb12-1/tb31hara.pdf, in Initials, in page 132, he wrote: To typeset the initial D of Appendix B, I used the macro \yinitial{D} as…
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Drop cap using yfonts and yinipar on a double-spaced text

In reference to drop cap letters, and the thread How can I create documents in LaTeX using a calligraphic first letter for chapters? can anybody tell how to get rid of the space problem that occurs when one uses…
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What will the tex command for the following image?

How can I produce the below image in LaTEX. To be specific look at the starting word of the paragraph. I dont want to produce that word, but the format in which the paragraph is produced looks nice. I hope people understand what I want. Thanks.
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